Day 362: Making Do

I was doing a little bike maintenance today and part of it involved washing out the air filter on the Dirty Husky. This is the kind of important bike part that just can't be left drying in the sun on the pavers, not when you have a weird old dog that likes to eat things that are not normally considered food. To avoid having my filter destroyed by my dopey dog Rex and also the effort involved in walking all the way to the clothes line to hang I improvised with an old broom and a house brick.

Day 260: Every Dog Has Its Day

Today was Dog wash day, which is something we usually outsource to the local Dogworld but because the weather has been so nice over the last couple of days we decided to take care of it ourselves. Henry even helped. After watching Belinda wash and rinse Rex, Henry helped rinse Milly off by tipping jugs of water on her like Belinda had for Rex. He's a quick study.

I like this photo because it caught the water splashing off Rex's back as Belinda was pouring it on, you can also see how much Rex was enjoying it all and Henry intently taking it all in.

Day 195: Best Buddies

Just because I thought they were cute. They're an odd couple Milly and Rex. Milly seems to take great pleasure in treating her sugar daddy Rex mean in order to keep him keen, and Rex just sits there with a stupid grin on his face... and then licks Milly's face until it's wet.

Tonight they were being reasonably well behaved and looked so comfy snuggled up next to each other that I thought I'd take a photo... not long after Rex snuck off to steal the cat's food. I did say reasonably well behaved.

Day 11: Prancing Puppies

After comparing the excitement of Jenna and Henry seeing each other to that of the dogs when they're let inside for the evening in yesterday's blog entry, I decided I'd try to capture the dogs going nuts tonight... I knew it wasn't going to be easy with the old hand me down Canon donated by Daphne and I was right, the first photo was of the stairs sans dogs, they were just too fast.

Luckily Rex goes a bit more nutso than Milly does and he usually heads back up our 3 steps to bound down them again. On his second run I managed to grab the photo above as he's leaping from the second step.

My best laid plans of capturing both Prancing Puppies in full lunatic mode were dashed when I found that all the photos with both of them were either out of focus or just didn't capture the movement and excitement that happens every night. In hindsight I should have borrowed Belinda's Nikon, it's so much faster than the little point & shoot Canon.

I may end up borrowing the Nikon a little more often throughout the course of the year... Belinda is yet to hear about my cunning plan of SLR snaffling...